Bruce Spanner

Gonna throw this back at you and say the wotsits are better, in my humble opinion of course.

A large share of the royalties from the Whitney version went to black communities in Nashville, around about $10m. She maintained full ownership of everything. The recent Beyonce cover, which is a unique song really apart from the back story, only has one songwriter, Parton, and again she'll syphon these off into charities.

Try this… https://whisperofyum.com/post/smashed-cucumber-salad-with-tahini-miso-dressing/ …and if you don’t like it I’ll come round your gaffs and cook for you.

1988 – The Dollywood Foundation Parton originally launched the organization in her home county of Sevier County, Tennessee, with the goal of decreasing high school drop out rates. She then started the Buddy Program, in which Parton gave $500 to every seventh and eighth grader who finished high school. According to the organization, the initiative was successful and the dropout rate declined from 35 percent to just 6 percent. 1989 – $500 scholarship Parton offered a $500 scholarship to every student in Sevier County who wished to attend Hiwassee College. 1991 – Eagle Mountain Sanctuary at Dollywood The 30,000-square-foot aviary managed by the American Eagle Foundation shelters the largest collection of “non-releasable” bald eagles. Parton’s efforts to preserve the bald eagle earned her the Partnership Award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2003. 1995 – Imagination Library The Dollywood Foundation’s Imagination Library began sending one book per month to each enrolled child in Sevier County from birth until their first year of school. The library was founded in honor of Parton’s father, who was unable to read. As of now has given away 224,000,000 books. 2000 – The Dolly Parton Scholarship Every year, the $15,000 college scholarship is offered to five high school seniors in Sevier County, Tennessee. According to the Dollywood Foundation, the scholarship is awarded to those who “have a dream they wish to pursue and who can successfully communicate their plan and commitment to realize their dreams.” 2007 – Benefit concert for new Sevier County hospital The concert raised $500,000, and both Dollywood and Parton’s Dixie Stampede dinner theater pledged $250,000 each to the project, for a total of $1 million. LeConte Medical Center, the new hospital and cancer center in Sevier County, opened in 2010 and features a 30,000-square-foot Dolly Parton Center for Women’s Services. 2016 – Telethon after devastating East Tennessee wildfires The Smoky Mountains Rise: A Benefit for the My People Fund, which aimed to help residents hit hardest in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, raised more than $13 million. Chris Stapleton, Chris Young, Kenny Rogers, Lauren Alaina, Alison Krauss, Reba McEntire, Cyndi Lauper and more appeared at the event. 2016 – My People Fund To continue her wildfire relief efforts, Parton launched the My People Fund, which provided $1,000 a month for six months to families whose homes were completely destroyed amid the natural disaster. The fund also donated around $8.9 million to those in need. The initiative still helps residents pay for rent and utilities, plus food and mental health resources. 2016 – Special Merit Scholarship Parton awarded a $30,000 scholarship to two-year-old Evey Johns in celebration of Imagination Library’s accomplishment of shipping out one million books per month. 2017 – $1 million donation Following the release of her I Believe in You children’s album, Parton donated $1 million to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in honor of her niece, who was treated for leukemia at that hospital. 2020 – Coronavirus efforts Parton donated $1 million to coronavirus research at Vanderbilt University, which helped fund Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna’s vaccine is 94.5% effective against coronavirus, according to early data. 2021 – Middle Tennessee Flooding Relief Parton and her Smoky Mountain businesses raised $700,000 to help residents impacted by the catastrophic flooding in Middle Tennessee in October 2021. Parton chose United Way of Humphreys County to receive and distribute the donation at the suggestion of her friend and fellow country music legend Loretta Lynn. 2022 – Dollywood Education Coverage The Dollywood Co. announced in February 2022 that it will cover 100% of tuition, fees and books for any employee who is furthering their education. The investment in employee education was made via Herschend Enterprises, Dollywood’s operating partner. The program is available to all seasonal, part-time and full-time employees at Dollywood Parks & Resorts. Herschuend’s GROW U. offers more than 100 fully funded diploma, degree and certificate programs with 30 learning partners in areas including business administration and leadership, culinary, finance, technology and marketing. The company also provides partial funding — up to $5,250 per year — for 150 additional programs in fields including hospitality, engineering, human resources and more. Employees can enroll in the program on their first day of employment. 2022 – Pediatric Infectious Disease Research Donation Parton made yet another $1 million donation to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville in June 2022, this time aimed at helping pediatric infectious disease research. The donation will aid Vanderbilt’s Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases to continue its effort in understanding how viruses and bacteria cause disease, understanding and preventing resistance to antibiotics, diagnosing and treating infections in children with cancer and more. 2022 – Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Parton received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2022. The award, presented by the international family of Carnegie institutions to honor innovative philanthropists, debuted in 2001 and is normally awarded every two years. It was not issued in 2021 due to the pandemic. And many, many more. Fell free to add your own. She could also knock up a decent tune and sing a bit...

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I think that the argument runs that Blair bloated and gave powers to the 'blob', or 'deep state', meaning politicians have no power now and are at the whim of a bunch of middle aged women called Cath in HR, and Brown destroyed the economy to such a degree that we are only now emerging from the catastrophic failings, meaning that the Conservatives have been hobbled since day one, and still are if you listen to Big Liz. What we need to do, according to her, is hollow out the already hollowed out Civil Service, Judiciary, independant depts that hold to account, remove the Bank of Englands independence, remove transparency and the codes of ethics, further distance ourselves from the EU, remove ourselves from the ECHR and deregulate everything her paymasters want. Would have been quicker to to say some rancid cunts want to rinse the UK and remove workers right to the point where Rees Mogg feels like he's actually living in the right century.

It was Blair all along, silly us... Just fire these useless, mental, cunts into the fucking sun.

Sounds lively at the Boo Camp. Big Div's name on the subs list will see the PTSD bubbling under though.

Sid they force it through the letterbox in individual items?

Laura Kuenssberg is in full on election mode now. 'So, Labour MP, here's something mild and rather inoffensive and in no way similar to the latest tory scandal I'm not going to mention, how do you fucking sleep at nigt you utter, utter scum? And, those plans you have for when you're in government, why aren't they working now, all a scam isn't it? Just why are you Britain hating scum, Scum? And now the weather'

Looking for a bit of advice from those who know far more about this. My brother has always been a distance runner, pretty decent as well, but dropped out during his twenties and picked it back up a few years back. He started training for marathons and can knock out 20 miles with ease and is on for around 2:30/2:40 finish times, but... After about twenty miles he gets severe cramps and has to walk/jog the rest of the marathon in pain, this has happened twice now and he's really downbeat about it as nothing at all happens in the training build up. Any ideas, he thinks it's salt depletion?

Dolly Parton is an astonishing human, even with all her remarkable achievements and awards, she still leads a wildly normal life with her husband. She is completely unrecognisable without the 'costume' and goes about a reasonably normal life anonymously.

Snouts in the trough latest... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/21/tory-mps-lucrative-second-jobs-stand-down-commons 'But analysis by the Observer has found that 34 members of that group, the vast majority of whom are current or former ministers, listed a net total of over £2.5m of expected annual income in the register of MPs interests. One transparency campaigner said the findings suggested departing Tory MPs were “taking their eyes off the day job” and trying to “cash in on their political connections to secure lucrative jobs”. While some of the jobs were for smaller sums, 11 MPs listed roles worth over £100,000 a year. At the top of the list was former justice secretary Brandon Lewis, who has taken on five new part-time roles worth £410,000 a year alongside his commitments as an MP. The most lucrative were for LetterOne Holdings, an “international investment business”, and FM Conway, an infrastructure and road-building company that frequently works for local and national government. Former chancellors of the exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng and Sajid Javid registered work worth £98,600 and £321,000 a year respectively, including, in Javid’s case, a £300,000-a-year part-time advisory role to Jersey-based investment firm Centricus Partners. In January, former deputy prime minister Dominic Raab registered a £118,000-a-year role working for private equity firm Appian Capital, for which he needed to work for roughly a week of every month. Some 26 of the departing MPs have also taken all-expenses-paid trips to the likes of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, usually paid for by lobbyists or the governments of foreign states. Independent Beckenham MP Bob Stewart, who surrendered the Tory whip late last year before he successfully appealed against his conviction for a racially aggravated public order offence, registered eight foreign trips worth nearly £20,000. Meanwhile, backbencher Lisa Cameron, who defected to the Conservatives from the SNP last year but is not to set to contest her seat in the next general election, registered six visits outside the UK, including one paid for by the government of Thailand and one by the government of Qatar. Former business secretary and Cop26 president Alok Sharma listed some 11 subsidised trips worth over £95,000. That was alongside over £330,000-a-year’s worth of outside work. Sharma said: “Much of my travel outside the UK is related to voluntary and unpaid work I undertake to advance climate action. This includes travel to support greater ambition through the Cop process, including visits to the UAE which hosted Cop28 last year.”'

It doesn't see, it has a 3D generated projection of it's surrounding. So, yes, in a way, it sees out of it's elbow in as much as it sees out of nowhere and everywhere at the same time.

If you're at a loose end in the afternoon let me know...

You in London, C?

Nah, the worm is turning. When it was just us getting dicked people didn't care, but now Arsenal are in it and the 115 charges are being talked of in every conversation about them. Most commentators are now following and calling it boring etc. The mood music is definately different, just need to up the BPM a little to really get people dancing.

Both would be good, but i think the complete destruction of a team that has fought their way to a final against the odds would bring about the spotlight on just how bent the whole thing is. Magic of the cup etc...

Ingrid Vasconcelos, Basketball(er)

With the latest sex pest losing the whip that means they only need 52, I think, so possible it has been done without a legitimate plot.

I kinda hope that Coventry beat Utd tomorrow then get beat 15 - 0 in the final in a proper one sided, pathetic excuse for a game of competative football.

Last time I saw him he was stinking it up at Barcelona. Wild.

Nah, that usless, fat, spinter is going to have a worldie.

On a serious note City have been bang avarage today, they'll still most likely win, but they look tired.

Penalties with City losing, again. Don't care about Chelsea, the shit nomarks fucks. A Kev Brown hamstring twang, Foden's shoplifting past catching up with him and the orc being recalled to the mother planet would be a bonus.